It is painful watching us try and attack down the right, whether it’s Coleman or Holgate there.
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It is painful watching us try and attack down the right, whether it’s Coleman or Holgate there.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Saying that he wants us to touch the top 4.
Don’t know why we’re putting so much stock into what he’s saying. I’d rather just see where we end up. Don’t think his words in a post game talk will make a difference tbh.
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
Touch top 4 by finishing in 3rd
It’s possible, but not very likely IMO.
New players into the team have a bit of a bounce which is probably what we witnessed.
For the rest of this season, somewhere between the lines of a rejuvenated Richy, a firing DCL causing problems, the class of J Rod, backed up by proper footballers like Allan and Doucoure with a solid defence behind them can get us over the line.
Think his game management and player rotation is starting to work well and we approach the final 3rd in very good shape.
John from Bootle
Player Valuation: £10m
Stop making a mountain out of a molehill Dave.
He's laying down the gauntlet to the players,
I'll paraphrase for you: "Look lads, the top 4 is within touching distance. we need to win this match".
MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
I think he just ment we win on Thursday and go 4th but then other team play and can go above us.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
If you watch his interview you can see what I mean: it's like he's saying the club can only dream of top 4.
IMO, this PL is blown apart by the crisis and wont change back anytime soon. Talking about 'touching top 4' is failing to read that new reality.
I am 100% behind Ancelotti btw.
I'm obviously not anywhere near the level of Carlo, but I think he believes that "touching" top four would remove a lot of the impostor syndrome we've been having the past couple years. People like Michael Keane have come out and talked openly about their mental health over recent seasons, and the improvement in his game is there for all of us to see.
It does feel like, with the derby win at our former ground, a mental block has been lifted.
It does feel like, with the derby win at our former ground, a mental block has been lifted.
tonka1878
Player Valuation: £20m
He also said "We would like to touch, we would like to touch the position, yada yada game thursday, I don't know how long" It is all beside the point and that point is that we are in a good position to qualify for Europe and a serious challenge for the top 4. And I am a pedant.
Yes. A number of people seem to be easily put out by my comment. Of course the win is most important but we were terrible, fortunately the opposition were slightly worse. The game was awful.
MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
After Thursday game the RS play twice before we play again.
Maybe he meant touching distance who knows. Who cares really. It’s not his native language it’s also probably his 12th interview all asking him the same question
Is he not talking about the immediate time after the WBA game rather than defining the season. I think you might be over analysing his words there.
Chelsea, West Ham & the RS all have a game or games between us playing WBA and the following fixture away to Chelsea and also have better goal difference. The odds are that it will be a brief spell at fourth before our next game. It's arguably as much about deflecting other teams attention from Everton slowly creeping up the rails as it is about our own players - I'm sure what Ancelotti says behind closed doors is slightly different than comments in front of the camera.
Ranieri managed to win a title spending the first half of the season talking about getting 40 points and staying up. As a result nobody seemed to take them seriously until it was too late.
Or do you reckon Carlo should be taking sports psychology lessons from this fella.....
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